CoggyMcFee
@CoggyMcFee@lemmy.world
- Comment on Most of the trick-or-treaters have been skipping my house, and I finally figured out why 2 weeks ago:
But if you don’t get the amount of candy you want in the end (and even with a slow pace my kids have always had more candy than they could ever finish), just buy some more. Who cares about the excess of candy?
- Comment on Most of the trick-or-treaters have been skipping my house, and I finally figured out why 2 weeks ago:
If your lonely, go to a bar. I’m trying to run these street with my kids and make some real candy profit.
If you just want a bunch of candy, go to Walmart.
- Comment on How long do you think we'll keep seeing "formerly Twitter"? 3 weeks ago:
How long was Prince “The Artist Formerly Known as Prince”?
For about seven years, and then he went back to calling himself Prince again.
- Comment on This moon decoration my wife got 1 month ago:
I don’t know if you realize how condescending it sounds to hear you say you “don’t want to ruin whatever enjoyment she gets out of it” by telling her… what? That you arbitrarily look down on the use of this absolutely grammatical construction?
The thing that bothers me most about stuff like this is that it is effectively some kind of “gotcha” that makes people feel foolish, like their natural, completely grammatical speech has errors, or something they should feel bad about.
- Comment on This moon decoration my wife got 1 month ago:
The worst kind of grammar pedant: the one who is passionate about a “rule” that is actually a style recommendation.
- Comment on I hate people like this 2 months ago:
If they are non-assholes then they should be glad you made them aware
- Comment on Anon vibes with his gf's brother 4 months ago:
It sounds like you’re asking why assholes act like assholes. It’s a question as old as time
- Comment on end your free trial 4 months ago:
Well if thats true then it’s pretty annoying.
- Comment on end your free trial 4 months ago:
Really? I’ve found that the really nice thing about the Apple App Store is that I can always cancel subscriptions in the same place and the subscription still works until the end of the designated period. Has this changed, or have I just been lucky in the apps I’ve subscribed to?
- Comment on Would America be as divided if Trump lost to Hillary in 2016? 4 months ago:
I think that electing someone as deranged as Trump — who basically would try anything and everything that a sane person wouldn’t risk out of self-preservation, we basically saw a speedrun of finding out all the weaknesses and exploits of our government, combined with proving that impeachment and removal is basically impossible as long as one party is in collusion with the president.
We might have gotten here anyway, but it might have been a decade or two rather than four short years.
And the Supreme Court wouldn’t look like it does and be doing what’s it’s doing, which is also now a speedrun of horror.
- Comment on Stay Mad 4 months ago:
It’s a frigging figure of speech. It doesn’t literally mean both options are “evil” anytime it is used. And you’re not “choosing evil” by voting for Biden — not for the people whose lives will be ruined if Trump wins.
If a few more people in a few states had chosen the “lesser evil” of Hillary over Trump, the Supreme Court wouldn’t be delivering supreme evil every few months for the foreseeable future.
(I don’t need to hear about how Hillary did a bad job in the election — it doesn’t change the fact that the consequences are what they are.)
- Comment on math checks out 5 months ago:
“….so please hold onto that phone with your above average number of hands and we’ll help you soon.”
- Comment on The current state of auto insurance: shit that belongs on a shady Kickstarter from 2013 5 months ago:
I got rid of mine because I kept mixing up the receiver and the ice dispenser
- Comment on What's the rule for which 'national identity adjective' suffix to use? 5 months ago:
If you mean that Pennsylvania Dutch is a dialect of German and that Dutch and Deutsch share a common origin, then that is true.
- Comment on What's the rule for which 'national identity adjective' suffix to use? 5 months ago:
It’s because Germany wasn’t a unified place until not that long ago, so different neighbors came up with their own way to refer to them.
- Comment on I don't know which one of you needed this information, but you're welcome. 5 months ago:
The fact that it happened more than one time makes it so much funnier
- Comment on Pdf partee 6 months ago:
While I agree about reclaiming the word, what OP is talking about is not what a reclaimed word accomplishes. A reclaimed word is about empowerment within the group. OP is talking about selling the concept to the public at large.
- Comment on Why do people still eat beef when we know it's terrible for Earth? 6 months ago:
You’re saying that trying to motivate people positively to move on from meat is “push the blame away” behavior. But I think tut-tutting individuals who eat meat is pushing the blame away.
While there are some people who believe that eating meat is an absolute moral wrong, a lot of people who feel eating meat is immoral because of what the meat industry does, both to the animals and to the planet. Five thousand years ago, people eating meat didn’t support the meat industry and all its wrongs.
So considering it to be pathetic to try to effect real reduction in people’s meat consumption because the methods shift blame away from the individual meat eater seems really ironic to me, as well as completely counterproductive.
- Comment on Trust issues 6 months ago:
I’m very suspicious of what you guys are saying but don’t want to check
- Comment on What side do you open a banana from? 6 months ago:
- Comment on Is this a 16th-century smartphone? 7 months ago:
- Comment on Oh the wonders of technology 7 months ago:
They all played music but they didn’t serve the same purpose, thus why I had all three. The CD player was for listening in my room, the boombox could be brought anywhere, and the Walkman was for privately listening on the go.
- Comment on How did overalls and jumpsuits went from male work clothe to female fashion without becoming "male fashion" ? 7 months ago:
In the latter half of the 90s it was popular with young people in general
- Comment on WebMD forcing employees back to office. "We aren’t asking or negotiating at this point. We’re informing" 10 months ago:
Honestly, if they said only that part in a memo, it would still obviously be very bad but it would be so much better than embedding it within this video. If I were an employee watching this, when they reached the part where they play Iko Iko while people dance after the CEO delivered the ultimatum, I’d want to shoot myself in the fucking head.
- Comment on Another great advert from Threads. Not really looking like my kind of place. 10 months ago:
It’s comments like this that make me think of the old adage: “Never wrestle with a pig because you’ll both get dirty and the pig likes it.”
- Comment on Jragon 11 months ago:
Seems like you’re just hand-waving the arguments against it, instead of considering what life would be like. There would be virtually no benefit but definite annoyances.
- Comment on Jragon 11 months ago:
You are definitely underthinking it
- Comment on Jragon 11 months ago:
With time zones, if it’s 10am where you are and you need to talk to someone somewhere else in the world, you look up their time zone and see what time it is there, and you know if it’s 3pm that they are probably still at work, and if it’s 1am there then they are sleeping, and so on.
If you don’t have time zones and you just know it’s also 10am there, what do you look up to quickly know whether they are likely working, eating, sleeping in that locution? Do you look up when sunset is in that city and then check its latitude and the time of year so you can estimate where they probably are in their day?
- Comment on Jragon 11 months ago:
You don’t see an inconvenience living in a place where a restaurant’s hours are
Wed 9pm - Thu 7am Thu 9pm - Fri 6am Fri 9pm - Sat 9am
And it seems perfectly fine to have it be ambiguous when you say something is tomorrow if you mean after lunch or after you sleep?
You can’t think of any clerical, banking, or technical inconveniences with having things carry over into the next day in the middle of the day?
- Comment on Jragon 11 months ago:
Plus a bunch of people would have the day turn over into the next day in the middle of the work day, which would be pretty inconvenient.
